With Dada Chen at NYAFF 2013

With Dada Chen at NYAFF 2013
With Dada Chen at NYAFF 2013

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

ACF 1480: R.I.P. Kaneto Shindo


Japanese director (45 titles at IMDb) and writer (168 titles) Kaneto Shindo died of natural causes in the morning hours of May 29 at the age of 100. He was born on April 22 1912 in Hiroshima prefecture. His last film, Postcard, which he both directed and wrote the screenplay for, was released in 2010.

More details at ScreenDaily.

Two of the films Shindo directed, Onibaba (1964) Kuroneko (1968), are currently available in The Criterion Collection.

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